India, July 24 -- The western zone bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has constituted a three-member joint committee to investigate the July 8 collapse of a legacy waste mound at the Moshi Waste-to-Energy (WTE) project in Pimpri-Chinchwad that claimed nine lives and left several others injured. The committee has been directed to inspect the site and submit a factual as well as action taken report within one month.

The order was passed on July 21 by a bench comprising Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh, Judicial Member, and Sujit Kumar Bajpayee, expert member, while hearing an original application filed by Advocate Sudarshan Kelgane and six others against the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) and four other respondents.

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